Overturned

• Un tribunale della Carolina del Sud ha annullato le condanne per omicidio di Alex Murdaugh, l'eminente avvocato condannato per aver ucciso la moglie e il figlio, aprendo la strada a un potenziale nuovo processo o al rilascio. • La decisione giudiziaria ribalta il caso di risonanza mediatica che ha catturato l'attenzione nazionale e sollevato interrogativi sulle indagini e sullo svolgimento del processo. • L'annullamento segna una significativa inversione legale in uno dei casi penali più monitorati degli ultimi anni che ha coinvolto una ricca famiglia di giuristi.

I giudici hanno dichiarato che la decisione è dovuta a "impropri influssi esterni sulla giuria" esercitati da un cancelliere del tribunale durante il processo.

• A federal appeals court has overturned a lower‑court injunction that had ordered the Trump administration to restore the flow of federal grants to several local governments, reopening billions of dollars in funding that had been withheld. • The decision follows a dispute over how the administration interprets the conditions attached to federal grants, with cities arguing that the withholding amounted to political retaliation. • The ruling could influence how future administrations may or may not condition aid on policy compliance, and it has implications for federalism and local autonomy.

Decision came after hearing in which Subramanyam Vedam, 64, said he didn’t kill Thomas Kinser when he was 19A judge has cleared the way for the potential release of an Indian citizen who was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody last year after his Pennsylvania murder conviction was overturned following four decades in prison.The decision came the day after the four-hour hearing in which Subramanyam Vedam insisted he did not fatally shoot Thomas Kinser in 1980 and was questioned by a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyer. Vedam participated in the hearing remotely from the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. Continue reading...